It’s the last update of the year; I can’t believe it! I think we’ve made inroads into improving the store this year, and of course I have high hopes that we’ll carry this momentum on into 2010.
As with last week, we’re feeling generous, so I have some codes to give away (these codes will be for one piece of content available via the store) – there is no competition to enter, I’ll just be reading all the comments and giving codes out to those I deem the best comments made. Think of this as the blog version of ‘letters of the month’ you find in print magazines 
I’ll respond on the blog to tell you you’ve got a code, and then I’ll send it to you via a PSN message.
Onto the content this week then – Hustle Kings is here, and offers all you wannabe hustlers out there to chance to show off your skills with the cue. The classic RPG Vagrant Story also arrives, and is available to play on both PS3 and PSP.
We have our first batch of premium avatars available on the store; and these are all from the world of LittleBigPlanet, so know you can personalise your PSN ID with some of the sackboy costumes we’ve previously released.
AdhocParty is also available today, so now you can download this onto your PS3 and utilise it with the titles Gran Turismo, Final Fantasy: Dissidia and Monster Hunter Freedom Unite.
Finally, as promised, there are a few more titles added to the Special Offers (with two more additions being made on Christmas Eve), including our favourite fair maiden, Fat Princess – all the details below.
That’s it from me this year, but I’ll be around in the comments as usual.
Have a great Christmas and New Year, and I’ll catch you in 2010!
PlayStation Store via PS3
Additional Special Offers
(Until the 7th of January)
- Fat Princess (was – £11.99/€14.99 now – £7.99/€9.99)
- WarHawk (was – £14.99/€19.99 now – £7.99/€9.99)
- Monster Hunter Freedom Unite (PSP) (was – £23.99/€29.99 now – £16.99/€20.99) (reduced until the 21st of January)
- Resistance: Retribution (PSP) (was – £24.99/€39.99 now – £14.99/€19.99)
- LocoRoco 2 (PSP) (was – £19.99/€29.99 now – £7.99/€9.99)
- Numblast (PSP) (was – £3.99/€4.99 now – £2.39/€2.99)
Available from the 24th of December:
- Trine (was – £15.99/€19.99 now – £7.99/€9.99)
- Worms (was – £7.99/€9.99 now – £6.29/€7.99)
Special Offers
(Until the 7th of January)
- Gran Turismo 5 Prologue (was – £19.99/€29.99 now – £14.99/€19.99)
- Burn Zombie Burn! (was – £6.29/€7.99 now – £3.19/€3.99)
- Bomberman Ultra (was – £7.99/€9.99 now – £3.99/€4.99)
- Battlefield 1943 (was – £9.99/€12.99 now – £6.29/€7.99)
- Red Alert 3: Commander’s Challenge (was – £7.99/€9.99 now – £5.19/€6.49)
- High Velocity Bowling (was – £6.29/€7.99 now – £3.99/€4.99)
- Lemmings (was – £3.99/€4.99 now – £3.19/€3.99)
- 3 on 3 NHL Arcade (was – £6.29/€3.19 now – £3.19/€3.99)
- Burnout Paradise (was – £24.99/€29.99 now – £13.99/€17.99)
- Burnout Paradise – Big Surf Bundle (was – £27.99/€34.99 now – £19.99/€24.99)
- Fight Night Round 4 – Champions Pack (was – £3.99/€4.99 now – £2.39/€2.99)
- Skate 2 – Maloof Money Cup Pack (was – £1.59/€1.99 now – £1.19/€1.49)
- Skate 2 – Time is Money Pack (was – £3.19/€3.99 now – £2.39/€2.99)
- Skate 2 – Filmer Pack (was – £4.79/€5.99 now – £3.19/€3.99)
- Skate 2 – Dyrdek’s Fantasy Plaza Pack (was – £3.19/€3.99 now – £2.39/€2.99)
- Skate 2 – San Van Classic Pack (was – £3.19/€3.99 now – £2.39/€2.99)
- Dead Space – Scorpion Pack (was – £3.19/€3.99 now – £2.39/€2.99)
- Dead Space – Obsidian Pack (was – £3.19/€3.99 now – £2.39/€2.99)
- Dead Space – Military Pack (was – £3.19/€3.99 now – £2.39/€2.99)
- Dead Space – Tank Pack (was – £3.19/€3.99 now – £2.39/€2.99)
- The Godfather 2 – The Corleone Bundle (was – £7.99/€9.99 now – £4.79/€5.99)
- Burnout Dominator (PSP) (was – £17.99/€24.99 now – £11.99/€19.99)
- Burnout Legends (PSP) (was – £14.99/€19.99 now – £11.99/€14.99)
- Def Jam Fight for New York: The Takeover (PSP) (was – £15.99/€19.99 now – £7.99/€9.99)
- EA Replay (PSP) (was – £15.99/€19.99 now – £7.99/€9.99)
- Crash Team Racing (PSone Classic) (was – £3.99/€4.99 now – £2.39/€2.99)
- Kula World (PSone Classic) (was – £3.99/€4.99 now – £2.39/€2.99)
Downloadable Games
- Hustle Kings (£6.29/€7.99) Rating: PEGI 3
Availability: All locales
PSone Game (emulated for PS3/PSP)
- Vagrant Story (£4.79/€5.99) Rating: PEGI 16
Availability: All locales
Demos (free)
- Dante’s Inferno – Gates of Hell Demo: Rating: BBFC 18/PEGI 18
Availability: Not available in Germany, Saudi Arabia, South Africa or UAE
- Lego Indiana Jones 2: The Adventure Continues: Rating: PEGI 7
Availability: Not available in Czech Republic, Poland, Russia, Saudi Arabia or UAE
- MX vs. ATV Reflex: Rating: PEGI 3
Availability: Not available in Czech Republic, Greece, Luxembourg, Poland, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa or UAE
minis (emulated for PS3/PSP)
- Cubixx (£2.49/€2.99) Rating: PEGI 3
Availability: Not available in Australia or New Zealand
- International Snooker (£3.99/€4.99) Rating: PEGI 3
Availability: Not available in Australia, New Zealand or Portugal
- Tiger Trouble (£2.49/€2.99) Rating: PEGI 3
Availability: Not available in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Russia, Spain or Switzerland
Add-On Game Content
- LittleBigPlanet
- Pirates of the Caribbean Will Turner Costume (£1.59/€1.99)
- Pirates of the Caribbean Tia Dalma Costume (£1.59/€1.99)
- Pirates of the Caribbean Elizabeth Swann Costume (£1.59/€1.99)
- Pirates of the Caribbean Barbossa Costume (£1.59/€1.99)
- Pirates of the Caribbean Davy Jones Costume (£1.59/€1.99)
- Pirates of the Caribbean Sack Sparrow Costume (£1.59/€1.99)
- Pirates of the Caribbean Costume Kit (£4.79/€5.99)
- Pirates of the Caribbean Level Kit (£4.79/€5.99)
Rating: PEGI 7
Availability: All locales
- PAIN - Kato-San Character (Free) Rating: PEGI 16
Availability: All locales
- Dragon Ball Raging Blast – Ginyu Force Pack (free)
Rating: PEGI 12
Availability: All locales
- EyePet – Lucky Dip Styling Pack 10 (free) Rating: PEGI 3
Availability: All locales
- Rock Band
- (If You’re Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To by Weezer (£0.99/€1.49)
- Beverly Hills by Weezer (£0.99/€1.49)
- Let It All Hang Out by Weezer (£0.99/€1.49)
- Weezer Pack 03 (Contains the three tracks listed above) (£2.49/€3.99)
- A Lot Like Me by The Offspring (£0.99/€1.49)
- Build A Bridge by Limp Bizkit (£0.99/€1.49)
- Ocean Avenue by Yellowcard (£0.99/€1.49)
Rating: PEGI 12
Availability: Not available in Czech Republic, Greece, Luxembourg, Poland, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and UAE
- Guitar Hero 5
- Harder To Breathe By Maroon 5 (£1.59/€1.99)
- Hark The Herald Angels Sing By Steve Ouimette (£1.59/€1.99)
- New By No Doubt (£1.59/€1.99)
- Our Song By Taylor Swift (£1.59/€1.99)
- Celebrity New Years Rock Track Pack (£4.39/€5.49)
Rating: PEGI 12
Availability: Not available in Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and United Arab Emirates
Applications
- Adhoc Party Application (free)
Availability: All locales
Premium Avatars
- LittleBigPlanet – (£0.20/€0.25 each)
- Sackboy Avatar
- Craft Earth Avatar
- My Moon Avatar
- Sky Avatar
- Arrr! Avatar
- Marvin Avatar
- Gloria Avatar
- Great Blue Avatar
- Frost-E Avatar
- Hugo Avatar
- Lily Pad Avatar
- Christmas Tree Avatar
- Santa Avatar
- Giftboy Avatar
Availability: All locales
Videos (free)
- Digger HD Trailer
- Savage Moon: The Hera Campaign Trailer
- James Cameron’s Avatar: The Game Launch Trailer
- Hustle Kings Trailer
- PixelJunk Shooter Trailer
Themes (free)
(static themes)
- Gravity Crash Theme
- Mushroom Wars Theme
Premium Theme
(static theme)
- Disruptive Theme – Tropical Paradise Theme (£1.19/€1.49)
Wallpapers (free)
- Gravity Crash Wallpaper
- Gravity Crash Sun Wallpaper
- Gravity Crash Planet Wallpaper
- Gravity Crash Space Wallpaper
PlayStation Store via PSP and Media Go
Additional Special Offers (also available via the PS3 store)
(Until the 7th of January)
- Monster Hunter Freedom Unite (PSP) (was – £23.99/€29.99 now – £16.99/€20.99) (reduced until the 21st of January)
- Resistance: Retribution (PSP) (was – £24.99/€39.99 now – £14.99/€19.99)
- LocoRoco 2 (PSP) (was – £19.99/€29.99 now – £7.99/€9.99)
- Numblast (PSP) (was – £3.99/€4.99 now – £2.39/€2.99)
Special Offers (also available via the PS3 store)
(Until the 7th of January)
- Burnout Dominator (PSP) (was – £17.99/€24.99 now – £11.99/€19.99)
- Burnout Legends (PSP) (was – £14.99/€19.99 now – £11.99/€14.99)
- Def Jam Fight for New York: The Takeover (PSP) (was – £15.99/€19.99 now – £7.99/€9.99)
- EA Replay (PSP) (was – £15.99/€19.99 now – £7.99/€9.99)
- Crash Team Racing (PSone Classic) (was – £3.99/€4.99 now – £2.39/€2.99)
- Kula World (PSone Classic) (was – £3.99/€4.99 now – £2.39/€2.99)
Downloadable Games (also available via the PS3 store)
- Savage Moon: The Hera Campaign (£6.29/€7.99) Rating: PEGI 7
Availability: All locales
- Thrillville: Off The Rails (£7.99/€9.99) Rating: PEGI 7
Availability: Not available in Russia
PSone Game (emulated for PS3/PSP)
- Vagrant Story (£4.79/€5.99) Rating: PEGI 16
Availability: All locales
minis
- Bowling 3D (£3.99/€4.99) Rating: PEGI 3
Availability: Not available in Saudi Arabia, South Africa or UAE
- Cubixx (£2.49/€2.99) Rating: PEGI 3
Availability: Not available in Australia or New Zealand
- International Snooker (£3.99/€4.99) Rating: PEGI 3
Availability: Not available in Australia, New Zealand or Portugal
- Tiger Trouble (£1.99/€2.99) Rating: PEGI 3
Availability: Not available in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Russia, Spain or Switzerland
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927 CommentsAdd Yours
901
Posted on 23 December, 2009 at 5:32 pm by McTabish
Mike, it was my Birthday on the 18th December (thanks everyone for the… well nothing but hey) How about getting me FF8 ASAP as a special Birthday treat. Was just thinking aswell about getting Resident Evil 1, 2 & 3 up there?? Any news, just hope they are not £7.99 like MGS. Lets start a petition that we’ll all download if they are reasonalble at about £3.99…they are over 10 years old dont you know!!!
Anyway loving this update, seems a lot of stuff to take a look at.
Have a great Xmas everyone and happy New Year!!!!!!!!!
902
Posted on 23 December, 2009 at 7:49 pm by A-hardie
One question, where are the gigawatt blades for inFAMOUS? And the zombie island of dr Ned for Borderlands
903
Posted on 23 December, 2009 at 8:44 pm by Jarrettx
Hahaha, merry christmas!
Vagrant story, just in time!
And what an amazing size…
93mb? Gogo!
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Posted on 23 December, 2009 at 9:51 pm by SmoggyPhil
Ashamed to see that last week, the only comments rewarded were mindless praising and buttkissing of SCEE and the PS3. Definitely shades of a dictatorship a lot of times when it comes to this Blog, from the mindlessly brainwashed followers (Yes, there are some, but not everyone, I love those of you who keep an open mind towards the content and console rather than foaming at the mouth when someone complains, and being a white-knight.), to the censorship of comments, to only being rewarded for praise. Here’s hoping that’ll be fixed in 2010 but..I won’t hold my breath
Other than that, a good update (Mike, please shoot the rep. who decided including Taylor Swift would be a good idea for Guitar Hero 5)with some decent stuff, and Vagrant Story! Very nice!
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, Mike! Let’s see some really good stuff for the end of the decade!
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Posted on 23 December, 2009 at 11:34 pm by LordCartman
@9: (thorgrimm) – it’s a long time ago as I was flying from the UK to Australia at the time this came out
It’s nice to see plagairism being rewarded
http://community.eu.playstation.com/t5/PlayStation-Network/Plays tation-Calendar/td-p/9641278
906
Posted on 23 December, 2009 at 11:51 pm by ivahelm
I was thinking about getting warhawk a few days back and now i’ve no excuse. For me that’s deal of the day. The demo was a lot of fun.
Some nice updates. Fat Princess never really got me but trine looks interesting! I like the physics mechanic similar to lbp
As it evolves I’d like to see more ps3 games offered on the psn network. It’s great to be playing a demo and then decide you want to buy it and be able too. I wonder how they come about picking which games to make downloadable like burnout, gt prologue, siren, warhawk etc
I remember lemmings on pc. Might have to get that.
Wow it’s nearly new years eve already. This is a long post. But a good one!! Anyway, merry xmas one and all
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Posted on 24 December, 2009 at 12:00 am by Sicmay
Nice update this week- loving all the reduced prices.
merry Xmas and happy new year to all
now no-one has an excuse not to own warhawk- one of the ps3s greatest online games!
908
Posted on 24 December, 2009 at 1:18 am by tekkenism
What does the ‘PsOne Classics’ mean;
http://www.psu.com/Ten-PlayStation-games-that-defined-a-gener ation–a008435-p0.php
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Posted on 24 December, 2009 at 1:19 am by tekkenism
fixed: http://tiny.cc/CPkwh
910
Posted on 24 December, 2009 at 2:33 am by bow7
Thanks for all the hard work. Take it easy on your holidays as it looks like 2010 is going to be pretty busy.
911
Posted on 24 December, 2009 at 7:08 am by Jake_is_Hoffa703
Hey Mike!
OK to be honest i just wrote out my ps3 life story (4 months short) trying to win your rewards but i realized it, and swiftly came to my senses, delete it and started over lol. My sincere apologizes, but i did want to let you know that I am a new customer and have recently fell upon this great community.. these past 3 updates have been awesome. I wish i would have waited to buy Battlefield 1943! I also stumbled across the September 24 and just want to note that you have kept up the big updates filled with pure entertainment. Thanks and just to let you know how serious i am about being your valued customer I’m going to go play MAG public Beta!!!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Enjoy the time off
-Jake
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Posted on 24 December, 2009 at 10:43 am by Strikey182
Awww man, loads of stuff and nothing that particularly tickles my fancy
i don’t know if it’s just me but i would like to see more demo’s coming out because i would go round to my friends who had an xbox and i’ll be like “OOOOOooooooooooOOO i’ll download that on my PS3″ but then i’ll get home and find out that it hasn’t come out on the playstation, i understand there will be some reasons as to why it hasn’t, not just SCEE can’t be arsed getting it but could you try get some more? pleaaaaaaaaasee
Ah well, i guess i’ll have to stick with my Assassin’s Creed feather hunting for a bit longer then, well atleast until christmas, hopefully a new game will come my way
913
Posted on 24 December, 2009 at 3:26 pm by BiggsyMallone
Yay, New Stuff The Little Big Planet POTC pack, is Genius.
I still think you should give more things for free.
914
Posted on 24 December, 2009 at 3:50 pm by chicken14
man this is the best ever update. i bought a couple of things here 3 on 3, bomberman and couple more from the store thanks a lot!!!!!!!!
915
Posted on 24 December, 2009 at 9:00 pm by vericco
Give us a price cut on fallout 3 DLC already!!
916
Posted on 26 December, 2009 at 9:29 am by raffieltiger
This was the last update?. Dante’s Inferno demo was pretty good, but so much shiny junk.
917
Posted on 26 December, 2009 at 10:52 am by Dudley0Neill
No Dantes Inferno demo on the New Zealand PS Store.
Any reason for this? Or just SCEE just forgot again?
918
Posted on 27 December, 2009 at 12:13 pm by sharnnpete
Can anyone tell us why our thrillville is french downloaded it xmas day on new psp go we are in uk it was all wrote in english on the store and the manual is english but the game is french please someone help really want to get it working right
919
Posted on 31 December, 2009 at 2:45 pm by ninja_tom
Only now am I working out that we were due an update today, will we be getting a double update next week?
920
Posted on 31 December, 2009 at 2:46 pm by ninja_tom
Also, is there any way to subscribe to comment notifications via email on this blog?
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Posted on 31 December, 2009 at 5:40 pm by WolfReaper14
Just a suggestion, but do you think that while playing PsOne games downloaded from the PStore, we could have the XMB, aswell as having the specialist game menu to change disks and so-on. Im playing MGS (Nostalgianostalgia) and whenever someone sends me a message i have to save the game, exit, check the message, start the game, load my save, go through an epicly long cutscene thanks to mr Hideo Kojima and then, and ONJY then can i resume killing guards with my silenced SOCOM.
oh and one last thing… SNIPER WOLF IS DEAD! Commence Disk 2 =D
922
Posted on 31 December, 2009 at 5:41 pm by WolfReaper14
*ONLY =P
923
Posted on 1 January, 2010 at 10:41 am by malashi
Hey guys, I didn’t know how else to go about asking, but was wondering
what would the most effective way to “petition” or request games?
There are so many more games on the US and JP stores, it’s beginning
to feel like investing in the PSP Go wasn’t that good an idea.
924
Posted on 1 January, 2010 at 6:21 pm by Londons-Fiinest
It’s the last update of the year
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I was looking forward to an update this thursday, and came to see why there wasn’t an update.
I must say last weeks update was brilliant, I straight away without hesitation grabbed my hands on one of the new avaters, and was glad that I recieved a £20 psn store credit card for christmas to spend at the store.
(I’ve already got Fat Princess and Worms!)
Thanks for the effort, and seasonal greetings
925
Posted on 3 January, 2010 at 11:55 am by xXEJBXx44860
Good update but i have been looking for an update for this week but there seems to me that there isint going to be one. oh well the pirates of the carrabien littlebigplanet gamepack is enough to keep me entertained for years with the new feauture of water defintaly one 2 buy. do the littlebigplanet avatars move oh and keep up all the good work been looking at all the updates every week
dont stop and i just prestiged on modern warafre2 any chance of a new map pack lately? keep up the good work and have a good 2010:):)
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Posted on 5 January, 2010 at 7:06 pm by Marcus648
When are we gonna get some more classic games on the playstation store? Like many other PS3 users I’ve had a peek at the US store and the amount of games are there is enough to make me want to move there! They’ve got Resident Evil 1, 2 and 3, Dino Crisis and all of the Tomb Raider games. I’d just like to know if or when we’ll be getting updated with the same amount of content as them?
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Posted on 6 January, 2010 at 6:55 pm by TheIsotope
Looking forward to update tommorow hopefully FF8, America got it last week or week before i believe so hopefully we will get it.
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